rut

Object

• deer: This holiday offers a blend of spectacular autumn landscapes, pictorial nature photography and rutting red deer.
• track: The framing tree branches outlined the deeply rutted track in even more darkness.
• season: Yorkshire Post Today Nature notes Red deer are in the middle of their rutting season.
• road: She was standing on a deeply rutted dirt road in dense woods.
• path: Sighing, he turned around and started back up the rutted path.

Converse of object

• hit: A big push next before they hit the muddy ruts and splashed out in the stream.
• make: He thinks that ' set ' characters make a rut in story routine.
• have: The M5 into Devon has ruts in it like a farm track - especially up the hills.
• leave: Two years later, the ruts left by a light, two-wheeled Bronze Age cart were found nearby at Welland Bank Quarry.

Adjective modifier

• muddy: It's a long section, starting with some very muddy ruts, then climbing through a tree lined gully.
• deep: Deep ruts in the surface of the road show the result of many years of traffic.
• same: Class-based politics begins to sound more resonant once people feel they have been stuck in the same rut for more than a generation.
• good: Better of course to be stuck in a ' good rut ' than a bad rut.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: The framing tree branches outlined the deeply rutted track in even more darkness.
• badly: The first bit had a gentle gradient but was quite badly rutted, catching out Mike Hobbs in his Big Beetle.
• heavily: These are often muddy and heavily rutted from horses using the bridle path.
• very: The first fifty yards or so is more or less flat, which is very rutted and muddy.

Noun used with modifier

• cart: The scale of activity is indicated by the presence of cart ruts leading into the excavated rubbish pits.
• wheel: In the wheel rut 's clinging dark watch an arc of bright cloud, blue sky.

Preposition: in

road: Carts made big ruts in the roads from the brakes on them.